7 (more) questions with . . . Ian Rankin

Back in March, BookPage chatted with internationally best-selling author Ian Rankin about The Complaints, our March 2011 Mystery of the Month and the first in a new series starring Edinburgh cop Malcolm Fox, who investigates corrupt police officers.The Impossible Dead, the second book in Rankin's riveting new series, is featured in the ...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

Edinburgh Detective Inspector John Rebus is one of the longest-running characters in modern-day crime fiction, thanks to the extraordinary writing skills of his creator, Scottish author Ian Rankin. Winner of the coveted Chandler-Fulbright award (funded by the estate of iconic mystery writer Raymond Chandler), Rankin has treated his readers to 18 years' worth of novels and short stories...

Murder rap

The mystery stacks are filled with the works of former trial lawyers, prosecutors, judges, detectives, even beat cops whose procedural knowledge and behind-the-scenes experience bring a heightened realism to their fiction.But Ian Rankin, whose Inspector Rebus novels are the number-one selling mysteries in Great Britain, may be the only crime...

Whodunit Column by Bruce Tierney

YSTERY: WHODUNIT? Choosing a mystery is murder New mysteries arrive from old friends this month: Hope to Die, the latest in a long line of Matt Scudder novels from Lawrence Block; Strawman's Hammock, the new installment in the excellent Barrett Raines series from Darryl Wimberley; and The Falls, a moody, atmospheric Inspector Rebus novel from Scottish author Ian Rankin. The new millennium finds...

7 questions with . . . Ian Rankin

Best known for his books about Detective Inspector John Rebus, Ian Rankin has written a suspenseful winner with The Complaints, our March Mystery of the Month. Starring Malcolm Fox, a member of the internal affairs department of the Edinburgh police force, BookPage's Whodunit columnist calls The Complaints "superb on every level."...